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Third Grade
November
Newsletter
What We Are Learning Other Information
We are already into the third month All beginning of year conferences to
rd
of 3 grade and students have been busy discuss beginning of year assessment
scores have been held or scheduled. If you
learning! In reading, students have been have not scheduled a conference please do
reading a novel and learning how good so.
readers answer questions using the text. Please continue to send in Box Tops!
The focus is on teaching students how to Parents please remind your child to charge
refer to the text to justify their answers. his/her laptop each night! We use the
computers each day so they need to be
Parents can help with this at home by fully charged!
asking questions about the book your child Please make sure your child completes
has read and having him/her show you his/her nightly homework. This helps
where in the book they got this information. reinforce skills that have been learned in
Parents, it is very important that your child the classroom and will be tested at the end
of the year on Reading & Math EOGs.
read every night. This will help with
increasing comprehension and fluency.
In writing, students are learning
about narrative writing. We are currently
working on our Turkey in Disguise
stories. We are focusing on writing a good
topic sentence, adding descriptive details,
and a conclusion. We are also working on
knowing where to put punctuation, capital
letters, and using resources to help us
spell unknown words in our writing. Reports cards go home Tuesday,
In word study, we are finishing up a November 7th.
unit on nouns and are getting ready to Opera Field Trip is Tuesday, November 7th.
learn about verbs and verb tenses. Thursday, November 9th is a half day for
students.
In math, students have learned how There is no school on Friday, November
to round numbers to the nearest ten and 10th.
hundred. Next, we will learn how to Popcorn Friday is November 17th. Popcorn
represent data with picture and bar graphs. is 50 cents per bag. Money is due by
In social studies, we are currently November 16th.
learning about the 3 branches of All items are due for our Thanksgiving
snack by Monday, November 20th.
government. Students will also learn about Our Thanksgiving snack will be Tuesday,
Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. Our next November 21st.
unit in science will be on bones, muscles, No school November 22nd-24th.
and skin.

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